Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House approved a bill last Thusday that guarantees a national minimum welfare payment to poor families with children. Current laws allow the states to pay as much or as little as they choose to poor families with children. Current laws allow the states to pay as much or as little as they choose to poor families. As a result, some states like New York provide far more assistance than other states. Such states are unfairly overburdened with payments to citizens on welfare...
...body switches to burning fuel reserves stored in the liver and fatty tissues. After fat is exhausted, the body accelerates the breakdown of proteins in muscles, including the heart, which saps strength. At the same time, the body attempts to husband its resources by cutting energy requirements to the minimum. Pulse rate and blood pressure fall and body temperature drops. Men become impotent; women stop menstruating, and nursing mothers fail to produce milk; children stop growing. Mental and physical lassitude set in, and individuals become obsessed with finding food. Some malnourished people develop edema, a swelling, especially in the joints...
...period of rapid inflation, well-organized workers and those with scarce skills can protect themselves better, but even they eventually fall behind rising costs, and their living standards decline. Like Oliver Twist, American workers are expected to begin asking, "Please, sir. I want some more." The minimum wage is already due to rise next Jan. 1 from $2.90 an hour to $3.10. Nonunion workers are likely to start demanding greater pay hikes to catch up with both union salaries and inflation...
...Iran continues to give rise to worries of new production cuts by one of OPEC's most important oil suppliers, and the cartel itself now seems certain to announce new price increases at its December meeting in Venezuela. The Saudis, who have held their price at the cartel minimum of $18 per bbl., may raise it closer to the levels of other producers: $23.50 or more. At the same time, several OPEC producers have announced plans to curtail production next year, while Iran, Dubai and other producers are continuing to divert oil to the spot market, where...
...students in non-science concentrations who are allowed a free exemption choice should not be able to exempt themselves from the Science area of the Core, Wilcox said. "One of the spirits of the Core was to assure that Harvard students have a minimum of one year of science," Wilcox said...